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Or the English test questions the current Australian government wants to introduce for potential citizens:

https://theconversation.com/could-you-pass-the-proposed-engl...

So does New Zealand. I don't see how it's an issue that they expect skilled migrants to speak the language.

But Australia has had (and possibly still has) bigger issues with discrimination and xenophobia. Consider that the official immigration policy was called "White Australia" until the mid 1960s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy

tl;dr Australia wants potential citizens to get at least a 6/9 on the IELTS English exam (similar to TOEFL).

You need to do it in the UK for any type of long term visa unless you are from EU/EEA.

For citizenship you need both the English proficiency exam and the life in the UK test which is now actually hard even for natural borne Britons to pass.

For the citizenship, a British University degree is also accepted instead of an English test. (Or at least was ~3 years ago)

There was a recent story that suggested they were using AI to score these tests and it was failing people with Irish accents.

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